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0 NEWS: Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Postpone US Dates of 20th Anniversary North American Tour; Continue Canadian Dates

August 17, 2016
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· Hibria · Music News

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Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Postpone US Dates of 20th Anniversary North American Tour

Continue Canadian Dates

Out Now! New Album ‘XX’ Celebrates 20 Years In Metal

Brazilian power metallers HIBRIA announce they will be postponing their US dates for their 20th anniversary North American tour due to visa issues.

The band issued the following statement:

“We regret to say the American leg of our 20th anniversary tour had to be postponed once again due to visa delays. A brand new and extended tour is already being booked for the upcoming Winter 16/17. Stay tuned for more info.”

The tour presented by PureGrainAudio.com will continue its Canadian dates in support of their new album ‘XX’ released in North America via Test Your Metal Records to celebrate their two decades in metal.

Remaining Tour Dates:
08/18 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry *postpone
08/19 Chicago, IL – Reggies *postpone
08/20 Toronto, ON – Hardluck Bar
08/22 Subury, ON – The Asylum
08/23 Ottawa, ON – House of Targ
08/24 Quebec City, QC – Bar La Source
08/25 Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
08/27 Boston, MA – Middle East Up *postpone
08/28 Queens, NY – Blackthorn51 *postpone

Full stream of ‘XX’ can be heard at the following link: http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/brazilian-band-hibria-unleash-full-power-metal-stream-of-new-xx-album-exclusive-premiere

Album order available on CD here and digital here.

Music video – ‘Leading Lady’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0D-UPhDu9Y

1. Leading Lady (5:37)
2. Music (5:11)
3. Fools Paradise (5:41)
4. Silent Revenge (Live) (6:57)
5. Lonely Fight (Live) (4:59)
6. Tightrope (Live) (5:53)
7. Tiger Punch (Live) (6:17)
Album Length: 40:40

About:

A Brazilian power metal band formed in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. Hibria has grown in popularity in their home country plus worldwide with the successful release of five albums and a live DVD that showcases their intense concert energy (if ya never seen them in person). Their releases have reached the #1 position on sales charts for HMV stores across Japan, which has lead them to be support for such bands as Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth plus perform at Rock in Rio in Brazil and Loud Park, Japan’s most important metal festival, where they shared the main stage with some of the world’s most known bands.

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0 Tickets On Sale Now! Edmonton’s Doom & Black Metal Festival ‘Black Mourning Light’; 2016 Line-Up w/ UADA, Panzerfaust, Erimha, Helleborus and more!

August 16, 2016
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· Black Mourning Light Metal Fest · Music News

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Tickets On Sale Now! Edmonton’s Doom & Black Metal Festival ‘Black Mourning Light’

2016 Line-Up w/ UADA, Panzerfaust, Erimha, Helleborus and more!

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2016 Edition
October 21, 22, 23 2016
Rendezvous Pub, Edmonton

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/293606467646555/

Tickets are now on sale for Edmonton, AB based Black Mourning Light Metal Festival, a celebration of black, doom, and dark death metal presented by Crown of Visery’s from October 21st to 23rd.

Ticket prices are as follows:
Friday, Oct 21st = $25
Saturday, Oct 22nd = $35
Friday Oct 21st + Saturday, Oct 22nd = $50
VIP = Friday Oct 21st, Saturday Oct 22nd, Sunday, Oct 23rd Mourning After Breakfast w/ bands = $60

Tickets are available online through Crown of Viserys (http://crownofviserys.bigcartel.com/product/black-mourning-light-metal-festival-tickets), YEGLive.ca (service fees apply), Annihilatrix Productions in Calgary, AB and Desecrate Promotions in Regina, SK.

Friday, October 21 will be headlined by Toronto’s Panzerfaust, alongside Montreal’s Erimha, and Edmonton’s Idolatry. Display of Decay (Edmonton), the night’s only death metal band, Calgary’s Vile Insignia and Hive will set the tone. Idolatry and Vile Insignia are the only returning bands from Black Mourning Light 2015.

Saturday, October 22 will see Portland, Oregon’s UADA headline with support from Manitou Spring, Colorado’s Helleborus and Vancouver’s Wormwitch, Norilsk (Gatineau, QC), Cell (Winnipeg), Holocaust Lord (Victoria), Nachtterror (Regina), Dethgod (Calgary), Ye Goat-Herd Gods (Calgary) and Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer) will bring a mix of black, death, and doom to set that night’s tone.

Sunday morning, October 23 will not feature bands performing, but rather bands eating. Sunday will be reserved for The Mourning After, the VIP exclusive breakfast with all the bands.

Line-Up:

Friday, October 21, 2016

Panzerfaust (Toronto, ON) – 12AM

Erimha (Montreal. QC) – 11PM

Idolatry (Edmonton, AB) – 10PM

Display of Decay (Edmonton, AB) – 9PM

Vile Insignia (Calgary, AB) – 8PM

Hive (Calgary, AB) – 7PM

Saturday, October 22, 2016

UADA (Portland, OR) – 12AM

Helleborus (Manitou Springs, CO) – 11PM

Wormwitch (Vancouver, BC) – 10PM

Norilsk (Gatineau, QC) – 9PM

Cell (Winnipeg, MB) – 8PM

Holocaust Lord (Victoria, BC) – 7PM

Nachtterror (Regina, SK) – 6PM

Dethgod (Calgary, AB) – 5PM

Ye Goat-Herd Gods (Calgary, AB) – 4PM

Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer, AB) – 3PM

Black Mourning Light is still taking submissions from filmmakers to showcase their work (preferably dark/ horror) at this year’s event. The films will be viewed at The Rendezvous equipped with televisions to showcase films via DVD. Most films will be shown during band performances.

Filmmakers interested in having their work shown at Black Mourning Light 2016, can use the following Filmmaker’s Application, located here.
Watch the video trailer with clips from BML 2015: https://youtu.be/1tUj9PW-zOQ

black mourning light 2016 trailer

About BML:

Black Mourning Light Metal Festival is the black metal and doom festival founded by Dustin Ekman of Crown of Viserys. Created to fill a void in Edmonton’s black and doom scene.

After a successful debut during Halloween 2015, Black Mourning Light Festival returns for a 2016 edition set from October 21st-23rd. The onslaught will be held at the Rendezvous Pub with a lineup of bands from across Western Canada all in the vein of black and doom metal along with select death styles. Last year’s line up included 11 bands from three provinces such as headliner Idolatry (Edmonton), Altars of Grief (Regina), Noire (Winnipeg), Ossific (Winnipeg), Vile Insignia (Calgary) and more.

Those that attended the 2015 inaugural ritual will not be disappointed by 2016, as they can expect a different while similar experience to that event. Due to the proximity of Samhain, costume prizes will still be awarded to those who wish to dress up early and celebrate the season.

For more info, please visit https://blackmourninglight.wordpress.com.

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0 NEWS: Stereogum Premiere Full Stream of NO LIST RECORDS SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper

August 15, 2016
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· Music News · SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper (No List Records)

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Montreal, QC – August 15, 2016

Split Promo Request here.

No List Records | EPK – Split: Great Sabatini / Godstopper

Stereogum Premiere Full Stream of NO LIST RECORDS SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper

Split: The Great Sabatani / Godstopper Out August 19th

1. The Great Sabatini – I’m Not The Man Of The Hour (2:09)
2. The Great Sabatini – Shortwave Radio (1:03)
3. The Great Sabatini – The Ear Collector (2:31)
4. The Great Sabatini – Dog Years (Quiet) (2:51)
5. Godstopper – It’s Alright (3:59)

6. Godstopper – A Prayer (4:47)

Split Length: 17:23

NO LIST RECORDS is unleashing a split featuring six tracks, four from Montreal sludge metallers THE GREAT SABATINI and two from Toronto noise rockers GODSTOPPER. The split is slated for release on August 19th, but before its official release, NO LIST RECORDS has teamed up with Stereogum for the full stream premiere at the following link: http://www.stereogum.com/1893915/stream-the-great-sabatinigodstopper-split/franchises/premiere/

The split will will be available digitally plus on cassette at the following link: http://store.nolistrecords.com.

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About: Great Sabatini

No List Records | Solar Flare Records

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For fans of Melvins, Today Is The Day, Neurosis, Helmet, Whores, Torche, Unsane, Keelhaul

“…hails from further out in left-field with more peaks and valleys than the heads-down-tits-up sludgy rock they fire at you from the stage…these dudes have a 90s alt-rock edge grinding against their love affair with riffs that crash bolts of lightning into stacks of Orange amps in delivering a rumbling calling card of hellacious noise.” – Decibel

“In 2012, the unpredictability and wickedness of Matterhorn and the gritty violence of the companion release The Royal We established the group as one to watch closely; Dog Years confirms that attention was well worth it.” – Exclaim

“The Great Sabatini are not just playing by-the-numbers sludge, but rather mixing things up, and transposing their punk attitude into new forms of musical expression beyond what you might be expecting.” – The Sleeping Shaman

L-R – Joey (bass. vocals), Steve (Drums, vocals), Sean (guitar, vocals), Rob (guitar, vocals) Photo Credit: Marc Bourgon

Since forming in Montreal in late 2007, The Great Sabatini have released four eps, three full length albums, and logged seemingly endless tour dates around North America and Europe. Their music is an aggressive mixture of noise rock, doom, hardcore, and metal wrapped up in a burly sludge aesthetic. They’ll fearlessly employ any musical device if it suits their needs, from standard pop song structures and hooks to utterly tuneless experimentation or any degree between the two. All four band members handle vocal duties. They play loud, and with conviction.

Their latest full length album “Dog Years” (2014) was the result of years of accumulated experience writing, performing and recording together. It was recorded in Hamilton by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota) and self-released by the band in Canada on digital and vinyl and released by Solar Flare Records on vinyl for Europe and USA.

Show Dates:
Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo – info

Aug 20 – Sherbrooke, QC – Le Murdoch – info

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About: Godstopper

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For fans of Melvins, Failure, YOB, Torche, Big Business

“There’s a lot of compositional bells and whistles on deck here, from a chugging chorus riff that feels like it’s perpetually interrupting itself to a left-turn Thin Lizzy guitar lick that King Buzzo would surely appreciate. But the part that’ll really suck you in is the sublime vocal harmonies that frontman Mike Simpson layers over the song like fishnet over a boulder.” – Stereogum

“Like the best records by Today Is the Day, Swans and Harvey Milk, all of which I hear in Godstopper’s jarring songwriting…We talk a lot about making extreme music as cathartic for the music maker, but what the listener? I feel no more relieved for having heard Empty Crawlspace. In fact it’s psychically draining. And totally addictive, too. I’m not going to be able to sleep for a week.” – Metalsucks

“Somewhere between the Thunder-Pop of sparkly heavy-hitters Torche, the aggressive sludge of fellow Floridians Cavity and the awkward stop-start dream-logic quasi-operatic noise rock of Pony Express Record-era Shudder To Think lie Toronto’s Godstopper…What Matters is a tough record to describe, in some ways, as any comparisons I care to make are merely rough approximations used in an attempt to point you, the potential listener, in a certain direction, as far as preparing you for what to expect. However, the truth of it is that Godstopper sound exactly like Godstopper, and, really, how many bands these days can truly lay claim to such a thing?” – Sleeping Shaman

Godstopper Promo 1

L-R – Mike Simpson- Guitar/ Vocals, Miranda Armstrong – Bass, Derek Del Vecchio – Guitar, Adam McGillivray- Drums

Godstopper was formed in 2010. Mike Simpson wrote, performed and recorded a demo, later released on cassette, called “Empty Crawlspace”. The band then became a performing unit in 2011, and has since toured the US and Canada, performing with acts such as Ehnahre, Tombs, and OXBOW.

Discography:

2015 – Lie Down

2014 – Children Are Our Future

2013 – split w/Tendril

2012 – What Matters

2011 – Empty Crawlspace (demo)

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0 NEWS: Canadian Psychedelic Rock A DEVIL’S DIN Post Video Greeting For Upcoming UK Tour; New Album ‘Skylight’ Out Now!

August 15, 2016
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· A Devil's Din · Music News

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For fans of Ghost, Syd Barrett/Floyd, Psych-era Beatles, Early Sabbath,

70’s prog: Yes, King Crimson, etc, QOTSA, Tool, My Bloody Valentine

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Canadian Psychedelic Rock A DEVIL’S DIN Post Video Greeting For Upcoming UK Tour; New Album ‘Skylight’ Out Now!

L-R – Dominique Salameh – Drums, Vocals, David Lines – Keys, Guitar, Vocals, Thomas Chollet (R) Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Photo Credit: Renaud Kasma

Music Video – ‘Skylight’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lX4H7hMc0

Canadian psychedelic rockers A DEVIL’S DIN will be touring the UK this September in support of their latest album ‘Skylight’ released this past June via Island Dive Records to follow their 2011 debut album ‘One Day All This Will Be Yours’. The tour will kick off in London on September 10th and end with a special family reunion as A Devil’s Din’s David Lines (originally from the UK) will share the stage with his brother’s band The Elektric Joltz on September 23rd in London. Tour and ticket info can be found here.

The band has posted a video greeting for fans that can be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VknMPjnQwjA

Full Album Stream of ‘Skylight’ can be heard at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLTUpQjGzQ

Sept 10 – The Broadway Pub – Leigh-On-Sea, UK

Sept 11 – The Fiddler Elbow – London, UK

Sept 12 – Nambucca – London, UK

Sept 13 – The Chambers – Folkestone, UK
Sept 14 – Pitcher & Piano – Brighton, UK

Sept 15 – Dog & Whistle – Hertford, UK

Sept 16 – Crowley’s Rock Bar – Swansea, UK

Sept 17 – Lounge 41 – Workington, UK

Sept 18 – Percy’s – Whitchurch, UK

Sept 19 – The Skerries – Bangor, UK

Sept 20 – Saturn Bar – Liverpool, UK

Sept 21 – Thirsty Scholar – Manchester, UK

Sept 22 – Mullberry Tavern – Sheffield, UK

Sept 23 – London, UK – The Birds Nest w/ support from The Electric Zoltz

A DEVIL’S DIN is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, QC where they were drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock / metal tinged music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A DEVIL’S DIN is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.

Vocalist / guitarist David Lines comments on their album ‘Skylight’:

“Essentially this album is really a tribute to the psychedelic experience. I drew on my own personal involvement with certain consciousness-expanding substances to create a set of songs that would take the listener on a journey, both lyrically and musically. Within these 9 songs there exists a certain contrast between the hallucinatory and the heavy. Obviously we also owe a lot of this album’s influence to another era, not just by sound and texture, but by the spirit of adventure, daring and experimentation that was prevalent then and bring all of that to the world today, right now.”

Bassist Tom G. Stout also adds “Even though we are inspired by LSD trips, we still like to hit hard, and enjoy getting a little aggressive. You have to balance out the light with the darkness, because otherwise you’re not being real.”

Album order available at www.ADevilsDin.com and Bandcamp.

1) Skylight (3:14) [Music Video]

2) Phaze Ulysses (3:29)

3) Never The Same Thing (5:20)

4) Bow To Thee, Absurde (3:43)

5) I Don’t Know (7:06)

6) Nature Of The Beast (4:23)

7) For A While (5:38)

8) Eye’s Pie (4:05)

9) Prequel (5:20)

Album Length: 42:16

About:

A Devil’s Din is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A Devil’s Din is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.

In 2008, UK-born stalwart Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and session musician David Lines decided he needed to form a musical outfit that would suit his own particular psychedelically-induced musical visions, and thus A Devil’s Din was born. While still working as a musical “gun-for-hire” around town, he continued to develop the songs and sound for A Devil’s Din–which he considers an Art Project not to be tainted by commercial desires–recording their first album One Day All This Will Be Yours between 2009 and 2010, and releasing it on his own label Island Dive Records in 2011.

Though the musicians on that record were excellent, it wasn’t until Lyonnais bassist and disciple of the Holy Trinity of Rickenbacker Bass (John Entwistle, Chris Squire and Geddy Lee) Thomas Chollet entered the picture, along with drummer Dom Salameh (whose being born in Abu Dhabi did not at all prevent him from becoming an ardent Keith Moon devotee) that the sound really began to take shape. The synergy of the three took the music to another level, as witnessed at their intense and energetic live shows and has been made manifest on the new A Devil’s Din album SKYLIGHT that is set for release on June 17th, 2016.

A Devil’s Din continues to travel further afield in the world of psychedelic and progressive rock music, transforming listeners’ minds where ever they go.

Their first European tour will take place in September and their albums are available through various retailers on line and through their website www.ADevilsDin.com.

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0 NEWS: PureGrainAudio Premiere EP Stream THE APEX ‘Underbelly + Canadian Tour Dates

August 12, 2016
by Asher
· Music News · The Apex

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EP Request here.

For fans of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah, The Red Chord, Candiria

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PureGrainAudio Premiere EP Stream THE APEX ‘Underbelly + Canadian Tour Dates

‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’ (ON/QC/PE/NB/NS)

(Ever see a metal vocalist perform w/ Neurogenic Stammering)

L-R: The Apex Album lineup: Brian Gemus (Guitar) | Tyson Taylor (Drums) | Darren Marchand (Vocals) | Jer Candusso (Bass) | Steve Landgraff (Guitar) (Photo Credit Shari Richards)

2015 – Self-Titled – Album Stream – Bandcamp

Music Video – If Detroit River Could Speak – Watch here.

Windsor, ON’s THE APEX are unleashing their upcoming EP ‘Underbelly’ on Sept 17th, the first date of their two week‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’ with Regina’s The Man and His Machine across Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (dates listed below). But before they do, they have teamed up withPureGrainAudio.com to reveal the full stream of the EP’s ear piercing blasts of extreme shrapnel at the following link below. What truly makes THE APEX interesting besides the full force of their technical brutality, is that vocalist Darren Marchand suffers from Neurogenic Stammering, which effects his speech where the brain won’t tell the mouth what to say, so he’s unable to carry on a normal conversation, but for some reason he’s able to scream all the lyrics live and that is how he gets to express himself vocally with the band.

To listen to ‘Underbelly’, please visit the following link onPureGrainAudio.com: http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/stream-some-sweet-technical-metal-with-the-new-the-apex-ep-underbelly-exclusive-premiere

EP pre-order available at https://theapexband.bandcamp.com/album/underbelly-ep

The Apex – Underbelly (EP)

1. Scabs and Sheep

2. Underbelly

3. Paid in Exposure

EP Credits:
Music and lyrics written by: Steve Landgraff and Tyson Taylor
Recorded at: Empire Recording Studios
Engineered by: Nick Kinnish at Serafina Productions

‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’:
Aug 17 – Windsor, ON – The Dominion House – info
Aug 18 – Toronto, ON – Coalition T.O. – info
Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – THR Bar – info
Aug 20 – Drummondville, QC – Pur Heriot – info
Aug 21 – Quebec City, QC – La Source de la Martinière – info
Aug 22 – Charlottetown, PE – Babas Lounge – info
Aug 23 – Moncton, NB – Plan B – info
Aug 25 – Sussex, NB – Uncle G’s – info
Aug 26 – Sydney, NS – Embers – info
Aug 27 – Sackville, NS – House Show – info
Aug 28 – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub – info
Aug 29 – Fredericton, NB – Charlotte Street Arts Center – info

BIO:

The Apex formed in August of 2013.

They are a collective of individuals from the Ontario metal community, whom over the years have come together from past bands such as, Closed Casket Funeral, Dismata, Blood Shot Eye, The Coalition Design, and Corprophemia to form The Apex.

In a true culmination of talent, dedication, and timing, this group has created a unique hometown sound that is now being called “Windsor Ghetto Tech”. The brutal sonic assault of their music coupled with the emotional reckless abandonment of their live performance, have drawn stanch comparisons to Meshuggah and classic Dillinger Escape Plan rounded out with a distinctly Canadian flair. To add influence, vocalist Darren M. suffers from Neurogenic Stammering, which effects his speech where the brain won’t tell the mouth what to say so he’s unable to carry on a normal conversation, but for some reason he’s able to scream all the lyrics live and that is how he gets to express himself vocally with the band.

In July, 2014 they entered Shark Tank Productions studio in Windsor, Ontario to begin recording their debut self-titled full length album, “The Apex”. They hired engineer Nick Kinnish of Serafina Productions (Johnny Truent, Architects, and more) to aid them in capturing their sound accurately. In November, 2014 they completed their recording and announced the independent release date of February 21st, 2015. In 2016, the band entered Empire Recording Studios to record their next release, the EP ‘Underbelly’ set to be unleashed in August.

TOUR EXPERIENCE
This band is no stranger to hitting the pavement to support the music they love to make. In their 15+ years of experience creating music in previous bands, they’ve been support on tour for bands like: Cephalic Carnage, All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, Cryptopsy, Today Is The Day, Killitorous, Erimha and Ion Dissonance to name a few. In previous bands they’ve also shared the stage on festivals with bands like: SOD, Venom, Obituary, Cradle Of Filth, Earth Crisis, God Forbid, Skinless, Beneath The Massacre and more to crowds up to 7500+ in North America.

As their current lineup “The Apex”, they have already invested in a mid-sized tour bus and have began to book many shows and festivals across Canada for 2016.

For more info, please visit http://www.facebook.com/wearetheapex.

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0 NEWS: MEDEVIL Premiere ‘Nightwalk’ Video via Bravewords + Western Canadian Tour

August 12, 2016
by Asher
· Medevil · Music News

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For fans of Megadeth, Metallica, Accept, Metal Church

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MEDEVIL Premiere ‘Nightwalk’ Video via Bravewords
+
Western Canadian ‘Conductor of Storms Tour’ presented by PureGrainAudio

Debut Album ‘Conductor of Storms’ Out Aug 26th

Photo Credit – Kevin Eisenlord

L-R – Eric Wesa (Bass/Backup Vocals), Ross Collingwood (Drums), Liam Collingwood (Vocals), Gary Cordsen (Lead Guitar), Brett Gibbs (Rhythm Guitar)

Influenced by legends such as Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Accept and Metal Church, Chilliwack, BC heavy metallers MEDEVIL are set to unleash their debut full length ‘Conductor of Storms’ on August 26th. The Canadian metal scene has been anticipating this release since the band placed in the top 6 during the 2015 Wacken Metal Battle Canada competition where they won over many fans with their self described ‘power thrash’ full of blistering fast riffs, strong choruses and front man Liam Collingwood’s impressive vocals (you can swear is Udo Dirkschneider from a distance).

Teaming up with Bravewords, MEDEVIL premiere their video for ‘Nightwalk’ at the following link: http://bravewords.com/exclusives/videos/medevil-unleash-nightwalk-video

Album pre-order at www.medevilmusic.com.

1. Nightwalk (5:11)

2. Machination Factory (4:37)

3. An Empty Glass (4:03)

4. In The Distance (2:50)

5. The Angel of Rain (7:40)

6. A Sacrifice (5:04)

7. Escape (4:20)

8. The Fabled Uxoricide (12:02)

Album Length: 45:51

MEDEVIL will also will be hitting the road this coming August and September for their Western Canadian tour presented by PureGrainAudio.com.

‘Conductor of Storms’ Western Canada Tour presented by PureGrainAudio:
http://www.medevilmusic.com/tour-schedule
Aug 25 – Vancouver, BC – The Media Club – info
Aug 26 – Victoria, BC – The Copper Owl – info
Aug 27 – Nanaimo, BC – The Cambie – info
Aug 28 – Chilliwack, BC – Main Street Night Club – info
Sept 5 – Kelowna, BC – Muninn’s Post
Sept 8 – Calgary, AB – Verns – info
Sept 9 – Edmonton, AB – DV8 – info

For more info, please visit: www.medevilmusic.com.

About:

It is one of the most magical moments in a band’s life when they release their debut album. We can only imagine what Kerry King and Tom Araya felt like on the eve of ‘Show No Mercy’ being unleashed on the world, or the excitement that must have coursed through Steve Harris and Dave Murray as their self-titled debut was about to escape into an unsuspecting and never to be the same again world.

Well, Medevil don’t just imagine it…their debut album ‘Conductor of Storms’ is about to explode in a blast of metallic thunder and lightning upon the earth.

Hailing from Chiliwack, BC, Medevil are a hard-working progressive band, constantly striving to improve their songs, a fact not missed by Wacken Metal Battle Canada, where Medevil made the top 6!

Band vocalist Liam Collingwood explains the band’s memorable moniker. ‘The band name was thought up by Eric and fits our style of music perfectly.’

Liam is very serious about the bands modus operandi. ‘Medevil formed as a creative outlet for each member. The goal of our band is to satisfy our creative desires, while maintaining our standard of quality and to expand our knowledge of music as a whole. In five words, I’d sum up our music as power/thrash/prog/heavy metal.’

Liam says if he had to pick one Medevil track to represent the band it would be ‘the song ‘Machination Factory’ as it is one of the heavier songs on the album and it’s also the newest song that we wrote so it’s fresher in our heads. We wanted to release something first that would be a good start at representing our band even though future songs may.’

Liam reveals that song-writing is very much a collaborative effort. ‘We normally have a bunch of riff ideas ourselves and then we all come together to complete our vision…We all take part in the writing. All the songs have some sort of collaboration going on, even though some may be very minor alterations. We try to collaborate on projects as much as possible without destroying the original vision.’

While the band collaborates strongly on the music, the lyrics are Liam’s department, as you’d expect. ‘Lyrics are normally written based on an emotion or a story I am thinking of at the time that I want to project. Although sometimes I have some melodies in my head that I really like which I try to put into my lyrics. Some songs are more about a story I am telling whether fictional or somewhat true. Others are about a feeling or emotion I am feeling at the time and can be hidden beneath metaphors.’

Liam is proud that Medevil have a high level of quality control when it comes to their music. ‘In total we probably scrapped eight songs in favour of the ones included on the album. Our early sound, from 2011-2014, was mostly a rock-esque type of metal. ‘In The Distance’, ‘The Angel of Rain’ and ‘A Sacrifice’ are all from the early days of the band. When we included Brett and Gary in the band in 2014, we started leaning towards a much faster and more progressive style.’

A similar level of thought went into the track listing. ‘The track listing was a long task, it was most decided based on what we thought was the best listening experience for our fans and for how we like to set up our live shows with some changes. Fans can expect new material in the coming years and regular tours once or twice a year.’

Liam rates the bands live show highly. ‘People can expect a refined sound from us as well as a powerful energy, and a good connection between the band members. Fans can tell we are a band of friends!’

Liam reveals that the letter ‘M’ is very significant in Medevil’s top five influences, which are ‘Metalica, Megadeth, Mastodon, Metal Church, and Iron Maiden!’

And now we can add Medevil to that proud list of bands beginning with M who all released powerful a debut album.

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0 NEWS: Out Now! Fuzz Rockers HOWLING GIANT EP ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’

August 12, 2016
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Out Now! Fuzz Rockers HOWLING GIANT ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’

New Video ‘Dirtmouth’

L-R – Roger Marks – Bass, Vocals, Tom Polzine – Guitar, Vocals, Zach Wheeler – Drums, Vocals

Photo Credit: Kim Auch

HOWLING GIANT is what happens when three nerds write about space travel, doomed seafarers, and a sentient android hellbent for a camel killing death crusade. HOWLING GIANT plays self-indulgent, drop-tuned, fuzzed out riffs that could curdle milk. Their new EP ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’ produced by the band, mixed by Kim Auch plus mastered by Chris Fasco is now out as of August 12th and available on CD and digital download plus streaming at the following link on Bandcamp: https://howlinggiant.bandcamp.com/album/black-hole-space-wizard-part-1

Music Video – Dirtmouth – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fW9b_lCuM

1. Mothership (4:51)

2. Exodus Earth (4:51)

3. Dirtmouth (4:31)

4. Clouds of Smoke (7:01)

EP Length: 21:05

About:

HOWLING GIANT! The very name summons up mental images of a huge mutated orc-warrior astride an even more gigantic mastodon, ready to bring death, doom, damnation and destruction (and many other things beginning with “d”) down upon its enemies.

Names matter, and something magical happened when three nerds obsessed with all that is fuzzed-out, riffed-out, and heavy came together to compose cosmic odes to space travel, doomed sea-farers, and even an android on a camel-killing crusade (what harm did the poor camel ever do to him?), under the name Howling Giant.

Drummer Zach Wheeler says the name is no accident and reflects the band’s music. “Howling Giant sounds a lot like a loud beast, which is what we strive to do musically. We aim to create a full sound that people might normally expect from a five-piece rather than a power-trio.” Indeed, by employing the three-piece format, Howling Giant is following in the footsteps of legends like Motorhead, MC5, Cream, and Corrosion of Conformity; good company to be in! As the band’s philosophy would have it wisely: “Teamwork makes the dream work.”

Hailing from Nashville, Howling Giant obviously had some special metal immunity to all the country and western music in the air. The boys started jamming at school in Boston with an aim to move away from overtly serious music and have fun, describing their music accurately as “loud, energetic, heavy, melodic, and cosmic.”

Overall, Howling Giant’s music forms part of a fascinating Black Hole Space Wizard concept EP series. As guitarist Tom Polzine explains, “Musically we aim to write songs that are melodic, catchy, and head bang-able. As a concept series, we strive to conjure up space-themed imagery of heroes and villains at war, introducing the story and setting the scene of things to come within the Black Hole Space Wizard Universe. We’re not trying to spell out the entire story so much as we are creating scenes to provoke your imagination.”

Writing is very much a collaborative effort. “We usually come up with a general theme, then we write riffs and musical passages to support said theme. After that, we work on overall arrangements to create a nice flow and build within the song. Lyrics and vocal melodies come last as an icing on a very meaty cake. We find the flow of an album is just as important as the flow of an individual song and we strive to make each song unique. We wanted to include a combination of heavy, spacey, doom, and thrash, all wrapped up in a crunchy garage-sounding blanket. Fans can expect two more EPs within the Black Hole Space Wizard Universe. And with an overflowing riff bank, who knows how long we’ll go.”

Such far-out music deserves far-out lyrics, and Howling Giant is prepared to go to extreme lengths to get them. As bassist Roger Marks reveals, “We have a strict regimen of smashing our heads into walls daily until lyrics finally come to us.” As for inspiration, “We are inspired by science fiction and occult rituals, as well as books, movies, and other music.”

As part of an overall concept, the EP paints four distinct scenes.

The pinnacle of mankind.

An exodus from Earth.

The Black Hole Space Wizard destroying everything.

A lone survivor trapped on a ravaged Mother Earth.

In Roger’s own words, “The first track is a little more progressive, packed with riffs both dark and triumphant. The second track is all about build and groove. The third track is thrash, metal, and destructive. The final track is spacey with doom elements.”

Overall, it you are one of the many that wishes Mastodon had continued in the cosmic, crushing progressive manner of Crack The Skye and Blood Mountain, Howling Giant is your dream band!

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0 NEWS: CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Premiere Video ‘Ages Unsung’ via New Noise Mag; New Album ‘Ages Unsung’ Out Sept 16th

August 12, 2016
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CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Premiere Video ‘Ages Unsung’ via New Noise Mag

New Album ‘Ages Unsung’ Out Sept 16th

Upcoming Show Dates:

Sept 17 – Gatineau, QC – Minotaure (CD Release Show) – info

Nov 14 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks w/ Sonata Arctica, Leaves’ Eyes, Omninum Gatherum – info

L-R: David Gravel (Drum) | Payam Doryani (Bass) | Mathieu St-Amour (Lead Guitar) | Christian Therien (Vocals) | Rock Déziel (Rhythm Guitar) (Photo credit: Chris Bubinas)

After a small hiatus and line up change, Ottawa, ON’s CHARIOTS OF THE GODS return in 2016 full force with an upcoming album ‘Ages Unsung’ set for release on September 16th to follow their 2013 debut album ‘Tides of War’ that was produced by music legend Glen Robinson (Queensryche, Gwar, Annihilator). Creating a kickstarter / pre-order campaign (thank you video), COTG surpassed their goal of $3,000 and recorded the album at The Grid with legendary Montreal producer Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Agonist, Beyond Creation, Neuraxis). Teaming up withNew Noise Magazine, COTG are premiering the lyric video for the album title track at the following link: http://newnoisemagazine.com/lyric-video-chariots-gods-ages-unsung/#

Album Pre-order available at https://chariotsofthegods.bandcamp.com/album/ages-unsung

COTG are also streaming the first single ‘Into Oblivion’, which features a guitar solo from Pascal Jobin of The Agonist and can be heard at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tjbhCkxPVY

1. Primordial Dawn (1:22)
2. Tusk (4:40)
3. Of Prometheus And The Sacred Flame (3:57)
4. War of The Gods (4:21)
5. As The Sky Falls (4:25)
6. Resurrection (3:46)
7. Through Darkness And Decay (5:50)
8. Into Oblivion (4:40)
9. New World (3:59)
10. Ages Unsung (4:45)
Album Length: 41:49

For more info, please visit www.chariotsofthegods.net.

About:

Blitzing out of Canada’s capital with their punishing hard-rock rooted in heavy metal, Chariots of the Gods has-been on one sole assignment since 2007: shredding endlessly in a neighborhood near you.

The five-piece band gave birth to their first EP “Reverence” in 2010. Their first full length album, “Tides of War”, was produced by music legend Glen Robinson (Queensryche, Gwar, Annihilator) in 2013.

In 2014, the band went on their first international tour in Cuba and were the first Canadian metal band to do so. Chariots of the Gods are now set to storm the world with the musical assault that is their latest masterpiece: “Ages Unsung”.

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0 NEWS: HARD CHARGER Announce West Coast USA Tour Dates; New Album ‘Bad Omens’ (No List Records) Out Now!

August 11, 2016
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HARD CHARGER Announce West Coast USA Tour Dates; New Album ‘Bad Omens’ (No List Records) Out Now!

Fredericton, NB’s hell raisers HARD CHARGER announce they will be hitting the road for dates across West coast USA kicking off in Seattle, WA on August 25th and wrapping up in Vancouver, BC on September 10th (full dates listed below). The tour is in support of their new release ‘Bad Omens’ available on cassette from No List Records, CD from Vleestak Records and 12” LP from Wasted Time Records.

To hear the full stream of ‘Bad Omens’, please visit the following link: http://store.nolistrecords.com/album/bad-omens

Conquer Darkness (3:46)
2. Ship Wrecked (2:02)
3. Derelict (1:15)
4. Dragged To Hell (2:47)
5. No Chance Parole (1:00)
6. Brain Suck (2:39)
7. Fed Up Nihilist Blues (2:49)
8. Snow Axe (1:46)
9. Relentless Mindfuckers (1:28)
10. Fog Riders (2:32)
11. Slice By Slice (1:45)
12. Two Day Hangover (2:30)

Tour Dates:
Aug 25 – Seattle, WA – Highline Bar
Aug 26 – Eugene, OR – Wandering Goat
Aug 27 – Reno, NV – Ground Zero
Aug 28 – Oakland, CA – TBA
Aug 29 – San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
Aug 30 – San Diego, CA – The Tower Bar
Aug 31 – Los Angeles, CA – Lexington
Sept 1 – Long Beach – CA – Black Light District
Sept 2 – Anaheim, CA – World Famous Doll Hut
Sept 3 – Pomona, CA – Characters
Sept 4 – Fresno, CA – Dynamite Vinyl
Sept 5 – Sacramento, CA – The Colony
Sept 6 – Bend, OR – Black Spot Collective
Sept 7 – Portland, OR – Black Water
Sept 8 – Spokane, WA – Mootsy’s
Sept 9 – Bellingham, WA – The Waterfront
Sept 10 – Vancouver, BC – The Astoria
About:

Loud, unrelenting high voltage crust and roll. 2015 proves to be an exciting year for the Fredericton’s ambitious hell raisers Hard Charger. The Trio will embark on their first ever US tour which will see them play 40 plus shows in as many days. They will be heading south in support of their latest release, the 2014 split LP with Fargo North Dakota’s SOTOS. The album which was released on North Carolina label Bigger Boat Records has gotten favorable reviews on both sides of the border. “The riffs are sick and the headbanging is involuntary” says Los Angeles fanzine Razorcake. Also on the plate is a follow a up release. The band has been busy working on their third full length album which they hope to have out by the end of the year. “The new album is going to kill. It’s going to be the same sort of crusty rock and roll we’re known for but we’ve spent a lot more time crafting these songs than we have on any of our previous releases. It’s a whole new level of Hard Charger” says guitarist Dave Cook.

Since their inception in late 2006 Hard Charger has accomplished a lot. They didn’t start off playing local shows like most bands. Their first show was on their first tour and they have hit the road hard ever since. Playing hundreds of shows in every province in Canada and over a dozen countries in Europe on their four trips over seas. They are truly one of New Brunswicks biggest musical exports. Their first release was 2008’s self titled CD on Winnipeg’s No List Records. That album was soon after released in Europe on French label CounterAct Records. In the same year Nerve Hold Records released the Bombs Will Reign 7” and Capitol Kill Records released a split 7” with Ironfist. The second full length album, also released on No List Records, was 2011’s “This Machine is Driving” released on LP, CD, and cassette tape format. In 2013 they released the Chrome Lord 7” on Primeval Sounds and their own label Waste Of Time Records. The Chrome Lord EP was also released on cassette tape by Ukrainian label Voices From Inside Records with two additional tracks which also appeared on Doomsday Machine Records 20 anniversary 4×7” box set.

With a plethora of releases and shows under their belt Hard Charger show no signs of slowing down any time soon.

Hard Charger is Tom, Dave, Shawn.

For more info, please visit https://www.facebook.com/hardchargermusic .

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0 Test Your Metal Records: ALMAH Reveal Details For 5th Album ‘E.V.O’; Artwork, Track Listing, Release Date

August 11, 2016
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ALMAH Reveal Details For 5th Album ‘E.V.O’; Artwork, Track Listing, Release Date

Brazilian metallers ALMAH led by ex-Angra singer Edu Falaschi are proud to announce they will be releasing their new album entitled ‘E.V.O’ on September 23rd worldwide via Pride & Joy Music (EU), Test Your Metal (US/MX/CA) and King Records (Japan).

‘E.V.O’ is the 5^th studio album from ALMAH and was recorded in São Paulo, Brazil at IMF studios by Tito Falaschi plus mixed and mastered by Damien Rainaud (Fear Factory, Dragonforce, Baby Metal, etc) at Mix Unlimited in Los Angeles, California. The release is a concept album based on the evolution of people’s mind and soul during the so-called AGE OF AQUARIUS – the new era that the world is about to live. The author of the concept, Edu Falaschi, touches different subjects connected to the main idea, creating very positive lyrics for the album’s atmosphere.

Musically ‘E.V.O’ brings a fresh and powerful sound with the typical modern and heavy ALMAH touch, but this time one will be able to realize that it also has a direct connection with the Angra’s “Rebirth” (the first Angra album with Edu Falaschi’s voice). The compositions are a pleasant travel between contemporary rock, modern power and prog metal. The vocal lines on ‘E.V.O’ are very powerful, classic and the vocals have a higher pitch compared to previous ALMAH’s records. It’s very melodic, clean and into the bel canto style.

1 – Age of Aquarius (7:13)
2 – Speranza (4:55)
3 – The Brotherhood (4:41)
4 – Innocence (4:35)
5 – Higher (5:09)
6 – Infatuated (4:05)
7 – Pleased To Meet You (4:24)
8 – Final Warning (4:13)
9 – Indigo (3:46)
10 – Corporate War (4:19)
11 – Capital Punishment (4:00)
Album Length: 51:26

Almah is:

Edu Falaschi – Vocals

Marcelo Barbosa – Guitars

Raphael Dafras – Bass

Diogo Mafra – Guitars

Pedro Tinello – Drums

For further information:

Official website http://www.almah.com.br

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/official.almah

Instagram @almahofficial

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